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WASHINGTON ― Thursday was a good day for Amy Coney Barrett. A Senate committee voted to advance her nomination to be a federal judge.
It wasnt a pretty vote. Every Democrat on the Judiciary Committee opposed her nomination. They scrutinized her past writings on abortion, which include her questioning the precedent of Roe v. Wade and condemning the birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act as a grave infringement on religious liberty. One Democrat, Al Franken (Minn.), called her out for taking a speaking fee from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit thats defended forced sterilization for transgender people and has been dubbed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But Republicans dont need Democrats votes, and now Barrett, a 45-year-old law professor at the University of Notre Dame, is all but certain to be confirmed to a lifetime post on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit a court one level below the Supreme Court.
Barrett is the model judicial candidate for this White House: young, conservative, and opposed to abortion and LGBTQ rights. For all the stories about President Donald Trump using his executive power to roll back civil rights protections in the past day, his administration axed the ACA birth control benefit and ended workplace protections for transgender people it is here, on the courts, where his team is working most aggressively to reshape the country.
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Following the same pattern.
Dismantling the judicial branch, and at the same time sowing the seeds of unrest.
Fascist bastard.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)orangecrush
(19,555 posts)Come true.
Irish_Dem
(47,087 posts)Just what Putin wants.
orangecrush
(19,555 posts)We clean our own house.
Ask Nixon and crew.
Irish_Dem
(47,087 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)orangecrush
(19,555 posts)"How did we come to this", but the answer is clear.
Russian interference put a guy with a 32% approval rating in the White House.
Pugster
(229 posts)some said.